The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-12-15

XVI SUolC. IN lOLtl lOSS Will
be over $3.50, 900.
Who will be the successful contest
ant for the premium on the largest num-
Der of subscribers for THE PRoGREss1v-
FARMER? Send in your names, brethren;
only three more weeks.
Liquor licenses are booming in Char
lotte and Atlanta. In the former city
they cost 81 900, and in the latter 81, 600.
After all, it is the man who stands in
front OF the counter who pays it.
The large barrel factory at Philadel-
phla was completely destroyed by fire on
the 10th inst. Loss about 500, 600.
Three hundred men are thrown out of
employment by the burning of the fac
tory.
Wake County Teachers Council held
its regular meeting IN Saturday the 10th
inst, but as the weather was so inclement,
there was not many present, and the
regular business was postponed till the
next session.
We know that the readers Of this
paper will overlook any short comings or
defects which may appear in this issue,
when told that the editor has been con-
stantly at the bedside, for several days, of
a dying daughter.
The Pittsboro Home has entered it's
fifth volume and we wish it continued
and increasing success. Bro. Merritt is a
symmetrical man, and his paper is neat in
appearance and neat in matter. 1t is full
of North Carolina.
On Sunday, the 18th inst, as ten
persons were crossing Neuse river in a
ferry boat at Milburnie, when about mid
way it sank and two of them drowned,
the others made their escape by swim
ming to the banks.
A delegation of students of the Uni
versity of Virginia called on the Presi-
dent the other day to invite him to at
tend the commencement next summer.
The President will accept if his official
duties will allow him. t.
Prof. E. G. Beckwith has been elected
Assistant Professor of Mathematics at
Wake Forest, and will take charge of his
department On the 18th of January, 1888.
He is an excellent teacher and the trus-
tees did we'll to select him.
xOur readers will do we'll to read the
advertisement in this issue of THE Pro
GREss1vE FARMER of Mr.. 7. II. Murray.
Those who desire to buy any fine stock
could not make a better selection than
those for sale by Mr.. Murray.
We are indebted to Rev. G. T. Bailey
for a copy Of the North Carolina Baptist
Almanac for 1883. This is the seventh
edition of the Baptist Almanac, and DR..
Bailey deserves credit for editing such a
well gotten up manual of facts.
The students of Trinity College are
in need of a library and literary societies,
and they do most earnestly appeal to the
general public for help. That is a good
cause and should receive a hearty support
from all friends of the College.
The well-known Potts-Lnckc muir
der trial has been decided. w. A. Potts
and Mrs. Susan Lincke were on trial for
the murder of Paul Lincke. Mrs. Lincke
has been acquitted and Potts has been
found guilty and Sentenced to be hanged
on january Goth. II ~"
Charlotte is ahead again in the way
of new enterprises. She now has a
sausage factory which grinds up one thou
sand pounds of sausage per day. Char
lotte is furnished from this factory and it
makes large shipments to other towns.
for Charlotte!
DR.. Herbert Battle, OF. the experiment
has made arrangements to receive
kilograms from about twenty different
points in the United States, giving the
temperature of each, that will give all the
different degrees Of temperature in the
States at one time.
The revival at the First Baptist
Church has closed, and the good done in
the city of Raleigh during its progress is
There were about five hun
dred professed faith in Christ, and about
the same number reclaimed as backsliders.
The city has undergone a revolution in